Cragin v. Ocean & Lake Realty Co.

The controlling question in both of these •cases is whether or not a complainant in a mortgage foreclosure suit, who by his pleadings invoked the exercise of the chancery court’s jurisdiction to adjudicate his alleged right to a deficiency decree and in whose behalf the court rendered a decree for a part of the deficiency claim against the mortgagor and his grantee who covenanted in the deed to assume and pay the mortgage debt, can afterwards 'go into a court of law and obtain a judgment for the remainder of the claimed deficiency against said original mortgagor on the same cause of action,…